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The model home at Taylor Morrison's Ladera housing development in Bee Cave, Texas, looks like any other modern house when you approach it from the road. There's a large front door, five windows and a few plants to bring the place to life. It's more o...

President Obama is reportedly considering appointing one of the biggest supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) as his new Secretary of State. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), who represented the Hollywood area in Congress from 1982 until the 2012 e...

Humans of New York (HONY), a popular Tumblr by photographer Brandon Stanton, has raised nearly $85,000 in less than 24 hours for Hurricane Sandy relief. "All of the blog's content will be dedicated to telling the stories of people affected by the sto...

Why did Businessweek think it was a good idea to poll its users about which college campuses have the hottest female students? Easy: It has done it before and no one noticed. This year, however, coming just after an election season full of heated deb...

Craigslist is known as a place to swap hook-up stories, but one New Yorker is using it for something just as essential to share: license plates. In a message posted to the "Items wanted" category on the Brooklyn section, a crafty resident is asking f...

The U.S. State Department has announced sanctions against five Iranian government and private organizations and against four individuals for their treatment of bloggers and journalists. Different types of sanctions have been instituted against Iran s...

After more than 50 years of 50 stars and stripes, the American flag may need a slight design change. Amidst all the political hubbub Tuesday, Puerto Rico voted for the first time in its history to give up its status as a U.S. territory and become Ame...

President Barack Obama didn’t just win the election. He also won over Tumblr. Obama collected more than 75,000 mentions Tuesday compared to Mitt Romney’s 35,000, according to exclusive statistics provided to the Daily Dot by Union Metrics, Tumblr’s a...

Critics and fans alike knew all about Colleen Lachowicz's prowess at World of Warcraft. Now she's shown them she's a champion at politics, too. The Democratic candidate for the Maine State Senate won her election last night. Lachowicz announced the w...

If you check mainstream news on a regular basis, you surely know there’s a presidential election today, and you’ve doubtless heard about the nasty hurricane that slammed the East Coast last week. But you probably haven’t heard as much about the serie...

Tumblr, the microblog known as a GIF artist haven and a home to memes like Texts From Hillary Clinton, is one of the top 20 most visited websites in the U.S. In an announcement made today, Tumblr CEO and founder David Karp confirmed that the site now...

Twitter has made a key change to how it handles copyright requests. Rather than outright removing tweets at the heart of copyright takedown requests, Twitter is instead “withholding” them and adding a placeholder message to the tweet to let everyone ...

No Doubt is not “Looking Hot” on YouTube. Gwen Stefani’s reunited band decided to pull their latest video from the video-sharing site on Saturday after some complained that it was offensive to Native Americans. (It’s still available on an unofficial ...

President Barack Obama may be the commander in GIF when it comes to his presence on Tumblr, but his competitor Mitt Romney is no slouch on the microblogging network. In October Romney was the topic of 94.5 million posts and 3 million reblogs while Ob...

Small business owner Teri Noboa sold with Amazon for a short time in order to bring exposure to her shop, Childhood Way Boutique, a clothing store for kids with holiday fashions and gifts for baby showers. But that decision came with an unexpected pr...

Instagram told the tale of the elements this week as users shared photos of riot fires in San Francisco and flooding on the East Coast. Jubilant San Francisco Giants fans celebrated the team's World Series win with a raucous riot that took over the c...

"Staff was rude, bad location, voter intimidation, chads hanging all over the place. One out of five stars; would not vote there again." If you have a noteworthy voting experience on Nov. 6, whether it's particularly good or bad, you probably want to...

How are you preparing for Hurricane Sandy? Stocking up on goods? Checking your generator? Or are you, like many Twitter users, rapidly signing up for as many parody accounts as you can? The Daily Dot has compiled a rundown of these hastily compiled j...

There are more than 5,000 people on social news site Reddit just horsing around. Subscribers to the surprisingly popular subreddit r/HorseMask send in pictures of themselves, friends or complete strangers engaging in everyday activities... while wear...

A new draft of President Obama's widely criticized executive order on cybersecurity might appease both hardliners who want the government to be able to freely access networks under hacker attack and privacy advocates who say there's no excuse to allo...

If you are one of the 55,000-plus people who follow grunge band Garbage on Twitter, you probably saw this tweet today: “We will have a surprise for you all if you all do that! it involves whipped cream and shirley...” Unbeknownst to fans, the now-del...

Reddit's biggest troll might be out of job, but he's not out of supporters. Michael Brutsch, the unwilling subject of a recent Gawker exposé that outed him as the controversial redditor violentacrez, announced on Saturday that he was fired from his p...

Breast cancer activists have accused Etsy of using breast cancer as a marketing tool without doing enough to help the cause. It’s an alleged example of “pinkwashing,” the corporate practice of selling pink products that don’t actually fulfill their c...

When Gawker's Adrian Chen pulled back the veil on one of Reddit's most controversial users, violentacrez -- responsible for running some of the site's most lewd and disturbing forums -- the 49-year-old said he would probably spend his free time focus...

As Moldovan officials sit down to plan out the latest chapter in their country's 20-year experiment with democracy, they won't be alone. Starting Oct. 16, they can log in to a web community geared for leaders just like like them. Called the Leaders E...

For the author of a blog that chronicles how difficult life for people is in their twenties, Emma Koenig seems to be doing pretty well for herself. NBC is developing a half-hour comedy based on Koenig's Tumblr, Fuck! I'm in My Twenties, reports Deadl...

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